I was wondering when this video or one like it would appear on this site. Kudos. I'm Canadian, and even though the debate is heavily focused in the U.S., the outcome could greatly influence what happens here as there seems to be a "wait and see" approach to net neutrality.

It seems a little paranoid to me: we are run by the elite and powerful, who are constantly trying to expand siad powers. But, damn, there's a lot of logic to it.

It's not just the Republicans who are in on it. After all, the relationship between Murdoch and Clinton is pretty chummy.

Quite interesting, I wasn't aware of this issue.... I guess it's something else we have to fight for.

Norm, thank you for keeping me informed.

There's a perception that tech can be divorced from social consciousness, and that's a problem that needs to be rooted out quickly. I've been hitting the comments boards of the various Apple-watching blogs today, asking the same question: "how many 10 year old Thai children will be needed to make this new Nike/iPod whatever-the-hell-it-is sneaker?

Issues like that and net neutrality and ISP-NSA cooperation and the proposed big tel mergers (see freepress.net) are the issues that will force us all to bring down the wall of prejudice that says tech and conscience have nothing to do with one another. In the world we're entering now, they have everything to do with each other.

I've actually been seeing more and more coverage of this.

I'm optimistic that we'll get to keep the interenet free to all.

The power of the people seem too strong in this debate.

I actually had to turn it off due to that insanely irritation music...

Seeing Amy Goodman's link there (Democracy Now!) reminded me to go over and have a look. I found her recent interview with Arundhati Roy, who had stories to tell of Bush's visit to India--stuff which never made it into the American press. The tale of Bush's Dogs is a jaw-dropper. If you can't watch the entire 1 hour show, just hit the link to the little audio segment I put at the top of my sidebar. It is truly bizarre, but painfully believable. And if you're at all familiar with Roy's marvelous work, you know she's no fibber.

The music in this vid is amazingly annoying, too loud.

This is nothing new. large companies like AT&T and Msft have been trying to turn the internet into another television for a while, with the added advantage of the PC also being an instant shopping network dream come true. I don't think there is anything evil in what these companies are trying to do: ie make a profit, but in persuing that profit they are likely to destroy what makes the net so unique, and homogenise it. it makes sense, for MTV executives for example, it is a dream come true to have the 13-20 year old crowd, sitting next to their monitor, and digesting endless clips and commercials with ads that ask you instantly if you want to buy what you just saw. It's been my observation that the less commercial parts of the web are the best parts of it. it would be a shame if this were to be destroyed in the persuit of profit.

This is retarded. There's only two things the ISPs could do:

1) Make their services faster

and/or

2) Make other services/websites slower or block them altogether

What I'm basically saying is that this is a non-issue until one of the ISPs decides to do something like this. If an ISP however decides they want to pursue such an idiotic course of action, they will suffer the consequences from users cancelling their service.

If you want to worry about something, worry about the upcoming energy crisis people!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicationsofpeak_oil

I recently read an old article (from 2004) about google preventing chinese citizens from reaching websites containing information about democratic values, foreign cultures and so on. But really, in a democracy such as the US ? ;)

The WSJ has an e-debate on net neutrality in which Craig Newmark (of craigslist fame) crushes a Bush dweeb.

Daily Rev, When I click on the little audio segment link or the link to your blog via Posted by: I get the following error message:

Runtime Error! Program iexplore.exe R6025 -pure virtual function call

Jo Ann: I think it's IE asking for an active-x control. If you try it in Firefox it might work. Or best of all, get a Mac!

On net neutrality, I just got an email from freepress.net with news that there's a vote in Congress today. He gave a list of key players to write or call today to weigh in with your opinion on net neutrality--I have the full list on my blog, here.

So loser, if I understand you correctly, what you are saying is let them destroy the internet because we will just stop using it. Correct?

um, "winner"...I think you've got that completely backwards. If you read the post over those contacts, you'll see that I'm sort of in favor of Craig Newmark's argument, which is that the Internet community can take care of itself without being sold to the highest telcom bidder. The Net will only be destroyed if it is handed over to corporate money. But if it's left to police and support itself through its own community, then it will do just fine, as Newmark points out in the WSJ piece.

This is such an important issue. We need to get this video and other infor about this issue out there. We can post the video in our blogs etc.. by using the codes found HERE

I prefer this video clip. It's short, sweet, and to the point.

I'm not saying there are not companies out there who try to do that esp. in video streaming, but they have not the least chance to succeed, at least for not-so-broadbrand content.

"net neutrality"? What an awful name for a cause. It doesn't get across it's meaning well.

"Internet equality" may be better. “Internet Freedom & Equality”

Equal opportunity & freedom are what's at stake.

"net neutrality"? What an awful name for a cause. It doesn't get across it's meaning at all.

"Internet equality" may be better. “Internet Freedom & Equality”

Equal opportunity & freedom of information are what's at stake.

Democratic ideas always get the crappy names. Why does only the right wing come up with slogans like "pro life" inferring those opposed are pro death.

Those opposed to network neutrality I suppose want the internet to get into gear?

How to bypass internet sensors/blockers

http://www.zensur.freerk.com/

http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/Censorshipincyberspace

No to Internet censorship.